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Star Ancestors…Guardians of the High Frontier, will explore the fascinating and bizarre connections that exist between Extraterrestrials, the Military Industrial Complex, and Indigenous peoples throughout the world.
Over the past ten years, Nancy Red Star has been documenting and writing about the relationships between American Indian contact with ETs and the UFO testimony of select witnesses from the Military Industrial Complex. To this end she has written and published six books that provides her with a unique opportunity to bridge “ mainstream” and ancient Indigenous cultures.
In a shocking series of unparalleled interviews, Star Ancestors, the film, will reveal for the first time the unifying themes between science and what some call spirit. This will allow us to recognize that the ongoing close encounters of Indigenous peoples of planet Earth are connected, in modern times, with the experience of a select group of former defense, intelligence and aviation officials.
Coming into view is the indigenous prophecy of UFOs and ETs- prophecies carved on rocks, etched in temples, choreographed in sacred dances, and beaded on story belts over thousands of years. There is a stunning impact in visual documentation presented by Indigenous peoples (the Maya in the Yucatan, the Tibetans in Bhutan, the Maori in New Zealand, the American Indians in North America, the Dogon of West Africa, the Aborigine in Australia) and the Military Industrial Complex around the globe. Exquisitely photographed in evocative locations these dramatic images are aligned with a unique musical score – a profound blend of American Indian and World/Indie music.
The testimony of military personnel, along with official documents, photographs, radar tracks, physical traces and other evidence demonstrates: proof of an age-old relationship between the human race and Extraterrestrial intelligence. Star Ancestors will provide knowledge into the mysteries of the Military/Indigenous UFO connection.
Robert Dean Stockwell: Narrator
During the 1940's Robert Dean Stockwell was a popular child actor, appearing with Abbot and Costello in Hollywood (1945), The Boy with the Green Hair (1948) and in The Secret Garden (1949). His success continued into adulthood. Together with Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson, he won Best Actor at Cannes for playing in Long Days Journey into Night (1962); he'd formerly won the award for his performance in Compulsion (1959) shared with Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman. Stockwell also appeared in Blue Velvet (1986), Air Force One (1997), The Rainmaker (1997) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004). He also co-starred in television's Quantum Leap (1989-93). He was nominated for an Oscar for playing mafia don in Married to the Mob (1988). In addition, Stockwell heads up the Sci-Fi Conventions all over the world. This year, Phenomenon: Lost Archives was hosted by him on a 6 DVD set as well as Star Trek Enterprise Season 3 released on DVD. Robert Dean Stockwell is a National Treasure and has appeared in over 125 films to date.
Nancy Red Star: Producer/Writer/Director (Cherokee/Abenaki)
Nancy Red Star ( Willow Spirit Productions, LLC ) is the author of six books, including: the Star Ancestors Trilogy (Inner Traditions International {Bear & Co.}, 2000-03-05, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Germany ) and Life With a Cosmos Clearance (Light Technology Publishing, Inc., 2003) and UFOs- No threat, Official Eyewitness Testimony (Light Technology Publishing, Inc., 2005-2006). Red Star is a headliner at speaking engagements that have included the International UFO Congress, World Universal Expo, the Roswell Museum, Orange County MUFON, The Aztec UFO Symposium, Omega Institute, and she has appeared on Coast to Coast with Whitley Strieber, South African Radio, KRZA Hawaii, CONTACT Talk Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio and Atlantis Rising . She has been featured in Nexus, UFO Magazine, FATE, New York Magazine, ELLE, Shamans Drum, and Majical Blend. Additionally, she has appeared in various Video, Television and Film Productions that include: Towsend Report , NYC; Owens Broadcasting, WCLL Live TV , OH ; Woodstock Cable , NY; ATTITUDES , Lifetime Television , NYC; Silverado - MGM /Larry Kasdan, NM; Red Dawn - MGM/UA, NM; The Hidden Hand - INDE/James Carmen, NM; Lone Ranger/ Columbia Bill Freidkin, NM.
The Late Phil Lucas: Director/ Writer/Producer (Choctaw)
Lucas graduated from Western Washington State, in 1970 with a degree in Visual Communications. Over the past 25 years he has made more than 100 documentary film and video programs including the award-winning PBS series, Images of Indians, The Honor of All, Walking with Grandfather, and the Emmy nominated, American Indian Dance Theatre: Dances For The New Generations. He also directed two hours of the Emmy winning, Native American Series, for TBS, and Co-produced The Broken Chain, a feature film for Turner Network Television. In addition, he wrote produced and edited an award-winning film biography on the late Apache Sculptor, Allan Houser, entitled Allan Houser: The Lifetime Works Of An American Master, which was completed in 1999.
George Burdeau: Creative Consultant (Blackfoot)
George Burdeau, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, has been a director and producer for more than 30 years. He received an Emmy Award for The Native Americans (1993-1994) and a Peabody Award for Surviving Columbus: First Encounters (1990). He is the founding dean of the Communications Department of the Institute of American Indian Arts and former director of the National Center for the Production of Native Images, both in Santa Fe , NM . Burdeau was the first American Indian director in the Director's Guild of America. He served as chairman of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, board member of the Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of Americas, board chair of the Institute of Native Culture and Communication, and founding board member of the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium. Some of Burdeau's films are, The Witness (1998), Who Owns the Past (1999), Stories Told in the Dark (1999), Backbone to the World: The Blackfeet (1997), The Native Americans/The Plains: Part 1 and 2 (1996) Storytellers of the Pacific (1994), The Pueblo People (1991). Burdeau is a leading American Indian Filmmaker who has worked in Hollywood on Television shows; his most notorious being That's Incredible (1980-1984).
James Fortier: Director of Photography (Métis/Ojibway)
James is an award winning Writer/Producer/Director/DP working primarily in video, television and web site production (Turtle-Island Productions). He has just completed Pulling Together (2003), a feature length documentary about the Muckleshoot Indian tribe cultural revival in the Pacific Northwest Tribal Canoe Journey. James was the Associate Producer and Writer for the 5 -Time Emmy Award winning Waasa-Inaabidaa: We Look in All Directions (2002), a six-hour national PBS documentary series focusing on the history of the Ojibway people of Minnesota , Wisconsin and Michigan . The series also received the Best Documentary Feature Award at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco . James also directed, co-wrote, and was the Director of Photography for the documentary Alcatraz Is Not An Island (2002), and received an Emmy for his directing. Alcatraz also received the Best Documentary Feature Award at the 1999 American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco , and was selected by the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in 2001. He also wrote, produced, and directed Voices for the Land (2002), a PBS documentary for WDSE, Duluth , MN focusing on environmental issues in Minnesota . In 1995 James was the Director of Photography for the dramatic short video Looks into the Night (1995), starring Tantoo Cardinal, which was awarded Best Dramatic Short Video at the 1996 American Indian Film Festival. James was the Director of Photography for We Hold the Rock, a short video which is part of the new permanent exhibit on Alcatraz Island commemorating the 1969 Indian occupation of the island. In 1998, James worked with Cree filmmaker Loretta Todd on her award winning CBC documentary on the life of Chief Dan George (1998). James is currently the Co-Producer and DP for the documentary American Lynching 2005). He is the Co-Producer and DP for Green Green Water (2004), a feature length documentary focusing on the devastating cultural and environmental impacts of Manitoba Hydro dam developments for Cree communities in northern Manitoba . Since 1987 James has provided his skills for hundreds of productions for broadcast, cable, corporate, industrial, and educational clients including TBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, ESPN, CBC, PBS, Knowledge TV, E-CHANNEL, Sci-Fi Channel, History Channel, Apple TV, Hewlett-Packard TV, Intel, Electronic Arts, Cisco, Visa, and many more. Recently, Jim was the DP for Stay Tuned, a documentary series pilot with host Peter Coyote. James was also recently the DP for the documentary series In America, produced for the International Channel, and the DP for the PBS series Great Museums, shot in HDTV, as well as for a documentary on the history of the Presidio in San Francisco . James was twice a recipient of PBS Emerging Filmmaker Fellowships, including the prestigious PBS Producers Academy Workshop at WGBH in Boston .
Edward Griego: Special Effects Editor
Edward Griego is the owner of Coyote Productions, a full service video/film production company in Taos , New Mexico. As an experienced editor of documentary films/television commercials and programs for broadcast he has strong project management skills from start to finish with over 15 years of experience as an editor. Griego is fully computer literate with programs such as FinalCutPro HD for editing, Adobe After Effects and Motion for special effects, plus DVD Studio Pro 4 for DVD authoring and mastering. Griego directed, edited and was the director of photography for Taos Artists Quick Draw (2005), a short film documenting the use of art done by over 90 Taos artists and auctioned to fund the future of the TCA. Edward was the Editor and Co-Producer for Do it for Uncle Graham (2004) documenting New Mexico’s 60 year legacy of nuclear weapons creation and manufacturing and dire effects on the health and lives of all people in the state (Just US Productions, LLC: Candy Jones Producer, 2004 Santa Fe Film Festival). He was Editor and assistant DP for Taos Voices (2004), documenting the stories of people who lost ownership of land passed down through Spanish Land Grants in Northern New Mexico (Agua y Tierra Productions - Roberto Romero Producer, Taos Vision Quest). As DP/Editor and DVD Author, Griego worked on Chi Nei Tsang (2005), an Instructional Video teaching the ancient art of Chinese healing with Carolyn Diel, Master of Chi Nei Tsang (White Cloud Institute, Conscious Goddess LLC: Eileen Meyer Producer) This two disc set of instructional video was created for the United States and Australian marketplace. As Director of Photography/Editor for Peruvian Whistles (2004), Griego created a Documentary Film for Daniel Statnekov who produced this film on the making of re-creations of the sacred whistling vessels discovered in the highlands of Peru . Additionally Griego Edited & Co-produced The American Fly Fisher (2000), a thirty minute program for television pilot (Tight Line Productions - Barrie Bush Producer).
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